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Location

Grid Reference:

TM 0364 8356

Map Sheet:

TM08SW

Parish:

NORTH LOPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

September 2001. Visited.Timber framed three cell house. Stack has removed a tiebeam indicating that the parlour end is a rebuild, and thus the original house was probably a hall house. Suggestions of a former smoke bay.Parlour cell of about 1600, remainder undated.See report (S1) in file.See also (S5).E. Rose (NLA), 4 September 2001.

August 2002. NAU evaluation.Excavation within one room of a timber framed building revealed rammed earth and chalk layers, burnt clay and an original ground surface containing several sherds of medieval pottery. Report (S2) in file. Listed (S3).See also (S4).M. Horlock (NLA), 19 August 2002.

These finds show that 11th to 14th century pottery preceded the present house, but the clay hearth above them is not where the building survey suggested it might be. Is it for an intermediate stage of the house, or should the interpretation of the building be reconsidered?E. Rose (NLA), 10 September 2002.